Sentence examples for embarrassing positions from inspiring English sources

He was ready to put himself in the most compromising and embarrassing positions if that was what a role called for.

In the earlier film, which takes place in 1973, the scene is set to Jim Croce's song "Time in a Bottle," and the trope is played for loopy comedy (as when Quicksilver takes a lick from a splash of a soft drink that's almost suspended in midair and poses the mannequin-like villains in embarrassing positions).

And there was the private Facebook group started by Kappa Delta Rho bros at Penn State, where members shared photos of, as a detective put it in an affidavit, "nude females that appeared to be passed out and nude or in other sexual or embarrassing positions".

In the past year, rock critics found themselves in the faintly embarrassing position of having to hail Justin Timberlake's "Justified" as one of the better records of the year.

Something like, when people find him he's in a really embarrassing position, naked.

Under a worse-case scenario, the United States would attend the conference, only to be caught in the diplomatically embarrassing position of watching other nations level criticism at Israel or America.

To illustrate this crucial point we consider, first of all, the embarrassing situation of a macroscopic object in the superposition of two differently located position states.

Calling the book "a triumphant application of scientific method to literary-attribution studies," the writer and editor Jonathan Bate, who left Peele out of his 1995 Arden edition of "Titus," wrote in a recent article in The TLS, the British literary weekly, "I am in the privileged -- or perhaps embarrassing -- position of being able to confirm the accuracy of Vickers's diagnosis".

His popularity has defied incoherent policy positions, embarrassing verbal gaffes and, now, his unsteady response to charges of sexual harassment from the '90s.

As the unhappy reaction in Indiana shows, plenty of Republicans find the anti-marriage position embarrassing, as do some business interests that are normally aligned with the party.

Rovers were tipped as possible promotion contenders this season but they have been hampered by injuries and struggled for form, with McGhee previously calling the club's position "embarrassing" before he was fired.